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On Local Day, only Hiroshima prefecture residents are allowed to enter the store after 5pm.

On Local Day, in order to preserve Hiroshima's culture and customs, only locals are allowed to visit. For the people of Hiroshima, okonomiyaki restaurants are a place for socializing, a place where you can talk with like-minded friends while eating okonomiyaki after work or school.

Due to the current increase in tourists, the situation has become such that locals cannot enter the store at all.

We have designated several days a month as Local People's Day for the locals who love our restaurant.

We appreciate your understanding of our thoughts. There are many great okonomiyaki restaurants in the area. Please use another okonomiyaki restaurant on this [Locals' Day].

P.S.

Previously, when we held Local Day, we were criticized for being racist. We were deeply shocked. Is it really that bad to protect local culture and customs? We usually accept many people from overseas. So is it really that bad to want to open for local people at least a few days a month? During the period from 2020 to 2022, when the coronavirus spread, local regulars supported Shimoto Restaurant in order to keep it from going under. There are days when these people cannot enter the store because there are too many tourists. We cannot be unjust to our precious friends who supported us through difficult days. [Local Day] is a day to express gratitude to our important friends. Thank you for your understanding.

※This restaurant does not accept reservations other than banquets and charters.

 ※Due to our cooking system, our restaurant can only accommodate up to 4 people per group. We do not allow more than 5 people to visit our store. Nowadays, we are often asked to allow more than 5 people to enter the store. Please understand that in order to run the restaurant smoothly, we cannot accommodate more than 5 people.

※The drinks we offer at our store are priced according to the amount prepared with ice. Even if you order without ice, the amount of drink will not change. If you want to increase the quantity, we will charge an additional fee. I don't want to go out of my way to explain this, but a customer who had previously ordered without ice told me that the amount was too small and that I should increase the amount. Since I left without paying the fee, I wrote it here as a note. In Japan, it is common to serve drinks with ice.

We will tell all tourists. Our shop is a small privately owned okonomiyaki restaurant. There are only two employees, including myself as the owner. Originally, the restaurant was operated as a locally-based okonomiyaki shop, so unlike large-scale stores for tourists, it is not a store that can handle a large number of customers. Our motto is to serve customers that will please each customer who comes to our store, and to bake okonomiyaki thoroughly and deliciously even if it takes time. Thankfully, more than 100 customers have visited our store every day since the beginning of this month. We are very grateful, but our cooking utensils and personnel are not structured to rotate that number of people. Normally, we have guided about 40 customers a day at most, so we have developed a service that satisfies our customers. Currently, there are too many visitors to provide the original service. If this continues, it will become an instrumental store that only bakes and serves okonomiyaki, which is not the original form of our shop, so in order to maintain the original management style that values each customer instead of profit-first management, from today, March 28, we will change the style to allow only the number of people who are judged to be able to provide the original customer service. Therefore, it will take some time to enter the store. We apologize for the inconvenience, but if you are short on time, we recommend that you visit a large store for tourists.

March 28, 2023 Momijitei Store Manager

【Address】

Hiroshima Prefecture Hiroshima-shi, Chuo-ku, Kamiyacho 2 - chome 3 - 10 Libre Kamiyacho Building 302

℡：082-543-5558

【Business hours】

Mon・Tue・Wed・Thu・Sun：12:00 ～ 22:00（Ｌ.Ｏ21：30）

Fri・Sat：12:00 ～ 23:30（Ｌ.Ｏ23：00）

Irregular holidays

【Nearest station】

Hiroshima Electric Railway(Tram) Hondori station or Kamiyacyo-nishi station